The BBC has fired a British radio presenter who tweeted an image of a chimpanzee dressed in clothes below the caption “Royal Baby leaves hospital”. “Just got fired,” Danny Baker, a broadcaster with BBC Radio 5 Live, said on Twitter. The BBC said the tweet was a serious error of judgment that went “against the values we as a station aim to embody”. “Danny’s a brilliant broadcaster but will no longer be presenting a weekly show with us,” the BBC said. (This story has been published from a wire agency feed without modifications to the text.

Source: Hindustan Times May 09, 2019 11:26 UTC